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Because sometimes you want a simple, quick, delicious cake and this recipe fits the bill. Not too large with umpteen layers to negotiate, not small and fiddly; just the right size.
With grated carrot, crushed pineapple and warm spices, this cake is moist, flavoursome and topped with the most moreish of all icings – cream cheese.
Ohhhhhhh my… these are good – even if I do say so myself. Mint chocolate brownies with a layer of after dinner mints nestling inside. The thought of these warm, with a scoop of ice cream is making me gasp. The thought of them cooled; fudgey and lip lick-inducing is making me swoon.
Yeah. they’re OK. In fact, they’re yummy. They’re minty and chocolatey and they’re brownies. All is well with the world.
This recipe from ‘GoodFood 101 teatimes treats’ has been nagging at me for a while. It felt like a cursed recipe, because every time I thought, yeah, I’ll make it, I couldn’t get any limes or they only had one left. Or worse, someone would say, ‘can’t you make … instead?’. Mostly, however, I had trouble with the limes.
If this was the 1980s, this would have been ideal for ‘Murder, she wrote’. I would have contacted Aunt Jessica and I’m confident that when she began her investigation, there would be a sudden murder of a mutual friend of ours whom neither of us had ever mentioned.
And the solitary lime sat on the shelf would have been involved. At the end, we would be in the freeze-frame as we sipped mojitos with the cursed lime adorning our glasses as we grinned our blinding white teeth at each other for the beginning of the music. Oh how we laughed as we recovered from the grisly death of the mutual friend with startling speed.
Anyway, this is not the 1980s and I do not have an Aunt Jessica (and that’s a shame, because frankly, most of her ‘nieces’ were pretty well-heeled) but there you go. I acquired some limes. Game on.
Sorry for the brief hiatus in recipe posting. We were away for the weekend and then I made some cookies to blog about, but they need more tweaking before they are revealed.
This is a real favourite of our family – the reliable, delicious ‘go-to’ recipe. It’s a tasty bar; filling, well-behaved and perfect for lunchboxes and big gaps between meals when you want more than a bite. I have never met anyone who didn’t love it.
This is the half quantity version, because I only had 1 egg. Guess what I’m going to the shops for tomorrow.
Mmmmmmmm.We have lunch with Mum and Dad on Sundays, and the afternoon is ‘try a new cake’ day.This cake was yesterday’s offering and is a delightful recipe from a dear little book called ‘Good Food’s 101 Teatime Treats’.
I felt sure I would want to tweak it, but in fact it needed little altering – brilliant recipe.
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